To make sense of Carter Page — an American oil consultant and former foreign-policy adviser to Donald Trump — you have to look at his proximity to Ukraine, Russia and some seemingly bizarre natural-gas deals. Back in the mid-2000s, future Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort set up shop in... Read more

This is part two of a two-part series. Read part one. By the mid-2000s, Donald Trump was having a hard time finding investors. He had just declared bankruptcy in 2004 for one of his major casino businesses to the tune of $1.8 billion in debt–and would declare another bankruptcy... Read more

Before Donald Trump was president or a candidate, and when he was hurting for investors as Wall Street had all but shut down loaning operations to him, his businesses established extensive ties to Russian oligarchs, including some allegedly affiliated with organized crime. At the same time, associates of Russian... Read more